Silverfish Farm Questions
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:19 pm
I very much want Efficiency scrolls to speed up my mining and terraforming. However, I can’t find any concrete information on how to build an effective silverfish farm.
Just to answer some basic questions, I am in the end and I have built an enderblock beacon.
Are there any good examples already built? I’ve searched the forums already but I can’t find any solid examples.
Does my distance to the silverfish affect their spread? Should I not build the silverfish farm to close to me, similar to other mobtraps?
How can I kill the silverfish? Do Silverfish periodically jump out of their blocks? Do they jump out and leave the block intact or destroy the block when/if they leave?
Does silverfish spread affect the mob limit cap? For example, if I built a farm right next to my enderfarm (which is made of wood) would it slow down the rate of silverfish spread and vice versa? I’d like to build both mobtraps next to one another so that both can be active at the same time to save me time spent in the end.
Right now my plan is to just create a gigantic block of cobblestone and let the enderman spread fully through it. I’ll use a poison potion to bring them all out and harvest them all at once. However, I don’t feel like this is practical to get a large, consistent number of Efficiency scrolls.
My other plan, if silverfish do indeed eventually fall out of their blocks, is to create one gigantic layer of stone above a water stream, mob trap style. This would give a consistent stream of silverfish but could be very slow and resource intensive. I read in another thread that silverfish have a “13 hour half life”. I would have to build an extremely large farm to get good item rates.
This seems like a large, resource intensive build and I just want to get it right. Thank you for any help you can give.
Just to answer some basic questions, I am in the end and I have built an enderblock beacon.
Are there any good examples already built? I’ve searched the forums already but I can’t find any solid examples.
Does my distance to the silverfish affect their spread? Should I not build the silverfish farm to close to me, similar to other mobtraps?
How can I kill the silverfish? Do Silverfish periodically jump out of their blocks? Do they jump out and leave the block intact or destroy the block when/if they leave?
Does silverfish spread affect the mob limit cap? For example, if I built a farm right next to my enderfarm (which is made of wood) would it slow down the rate of silverfish spread and vice versa? I’d like to build both mobtraps next to one another so that both can be active at the same time to save me time spent in the end.
Right now my plan is to just create a gigantic block of cobblestone and let the enderman spread fully through it. I’ll use a poison potion to bring them all out and harvest them all at once. However, I don’t feel like this is practical to get a large, consistent number of Efficiency scrolls.
My other plan, if silverfish do indeed eventually fall out of their blocks, is to create one gigantic layer of stone above a water stream, mob trap style. This would give a consistent stream of silverfish but could be very slow and resource intensive. I read in another thread that silverfish have a “13 hour half life”. I would have to build an extremely large farm to get good item rates.
This seems like a large, resource intensive build and I just want to get it right. Thank you for any help you can give.